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First meeting of the Open-Ended Committee of
Permanent Representatives (OECPR) to the
UN Environment Programme (UNEP)

24-28 March 2014 | UNEP headquarters, Nairobi, Kenya

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Intro - 24 March - 25 March - 26 March - 27 March - 28 March

Highlights for Thursday, 27 March 2014

On Thursday morning, delegates convened in open-ended contact group sessions to address the budget and programme of work (POW) and the science-policy interface (SPI). In the afternoon, contact group discussions on chemicals and waste management took place. In plenary, delegates considered the rules of procedure (RoP) of UNEA and participated in a thematic and programmatic debate on the role of UNEA in the UN system.

Sunu Soemarno, Chair of the OECPR, Indonesia (center), consulting with UNEP and Thailand

Jiří Hlaváček, Secretary of Governing Bodies, UNEP, in conversation with
delegates from Latin America and the Caribbean

PLENARY

L-R: Jamil Ahmad, Deputy Director, UNEP Office in New York; UNEP Deputy Executive Director Ibrahim Thiaw; Sunu Soemarno, Chair
of the OECPR, Indonesia; and Jiří Hlaváček, Secretary of Governing Bodies, UNEP

OPEN-ENDED CONTACT GROUPS

Open-ended contact group on budget and POW at work

View of the open-ended contact group on SPI

View of the open-ended contact group on chemicals and waste
management

RULES OF PROCEDURE

CPR Vice-Chair Julia Pataki, Romania

Amb. Konrad Paulsen Rivas, Chile, Rapporteur

Carla Espósito Guevara, Bolivia

Sherif Dawoud, Egypt

Diann Black-Layne, Antigua and
Barbuda

Antonio Otavio Sá Ricarte, Brazil

Masoud Gharanfoli, Iran

L-R: Amb. Fernando Rollandeli, Maria Teresa Kralikas, and Jose Luis Maccarone, Argentina

Sun Guoshun, China

Amb. Lynette Poulton Kamakura, US

Luca Arnold, Switzerland

Florence Daguitan, Tebtebba Foundation

Mollie Johnson, Canada

L-R: Marcos Orellana, Center for International Environmental Law, and Yunus Arikan, ICLEI

Pieter Leenknegt, Belgium, speaking on behalf of CPR Vice-Chair Bart Ouvry, Belgium,
reported on the open-ended contact group on
budget

Idunn Eidheim, Norway, reported on the open-ended contact group on SPI

Vladimir Lenev, Russian Federation, reported
on the open-ended contact group on
chemicals and waste management

THEMATIC DEBATE ON THE ROLE OF UNEA IN THE UN SYSTEM

UNEP Executive Director Achim Steiner

Sunu Soemarno, Chair of the OECPR, Indonesia

Isabel Gamarra de Fox, Paraguay

Kerstin Wortmann, EU

Susanna Rivero Baughman, Network of
Regional Governments for Sustainable
Development

Amb. Martin Kimani, Kenya

Delegates from Angola

L-R: Mariel Jiménez, Costa Rica and Andrés Comba Morales, Colombia

L-R: Yim Soo-Young, Ahn Se Chang, and Mino Kim, Republic of Korea

L-R: Ben Salacakau, Fiji, in conversation with Kaveh Zahedi and David Koch, UNEP

Related Links

Meeting resources

Annotated agenda

Major Groups and Stakeholders Participation in the 2014 OECPR and UNEA

CPR general information

Strengthening the Science Policy Interface, Report of the Executive Director - UNEP/EA.1/2/Add.1

Report on the Implementation of decision 27/2: Contributions by the regional ministerial environment forums for which UNEP serves as the Secretariat(27/2, OP15), Report of the Executive Director - UNEP/EA.1/2/Add.2

Report on the implementation of decisions adopted by past sessions of the governing body: Implementation of decision 27/4 on the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity andEcosystem Services - UNEP/EA.1/3/Add.1

Report on the implementation of decisions adopted by past sessions of the governing body: Environment Management Group’s work - UNEP/EA.1/3/Add.2

State of the environment: Report by the Executive Director - UNEP/EA.1/4

Support structures and processes for keeping the world environment situation under review, including a progress report on UNEP Live: Report by the Executive Director - UNEP/EA.1/4/

UNEP’s access-to-information policy

Report on Montevideo Programme IV midterm process

IISD RS resources

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First meeting of the Open-Ended Committee of Permanent Representatives (OECPR) to the UN Environment Programme (UNEP)

First meeting of the Open-Ended Committee of
Permanent Representatives (OECPR) to the
UN Environment Programme (UNEP)